The incomparable Robert Anton Wilson died on this day (11 January) nineteen years ago. More than ever, read his books!

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This is a footnote from my last blog post (rawsemantics.home.blog/2025/12/04/r...) comparing 𝗪𝗶𝗸𝗶𝗽𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 & 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗽𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮. (Wikipedia has been under attack by some conservatives, who regard it as biased. But I trust its decentralized *reliability* model a million times more than I trust Musk's Grok).

Many things that aren't censorship or which don't fit into a "free speech" vs censorship EITHER/OR logic can be dishonestly framed as censorship. This seems one of the main games of Musk, Vance et al. And some US "libertarian" media (eg @reason.com) tend to swallow it whole bsky.app/profile/noup...

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Multimillionaire Taibbi has little to lose by frivolously suing. He gets to hurt a critic & dissuade others from speaking out. And it does seem frivolous: his case is that he received no money from Musk. But that wasn't Higgins' claim in the book! A lawsuit built on a straw man? To silence someone.

Staggering that Taibbi is suing a book's author over passages like this. Matt claims his lawsuit *protects* free speech, but I think it has a chilling effect on legitimate criticism. I recommend @eoinhiggins.bsky.social's book. I've read Taibbi's complaint (its ironies seem off-the-scale to me).

Timothy Leary was a huge fan & early promoter of William Gibson's novels. (There's a dedication to Gibson in Leary's 'Info-Psychology', and Tim interviews Gibson in his book, 'Chaos & Cyber Culture'. Robert Anton Wilson was also a fan...

I had 'Mind Mirror' on floppy disk, way back when. From Tim's 'KnoWare Cyber Deli'. youtu.be/oE0lviWmZQo?...

Wild! A very early Tim Leary computer game based on William Gibson's (@greatdismal.bsky.social) novel Neuromancer. And it's playable. bsky.app/profile/srem...

Staggering that Taibbi is suing a book's author over passages like this. Matt claims his lawsuit *protects* free speech, but I think it has a chilling effect on legitimate criticism. I recommend @eoinhiggins.bsky.social's book. I've read Taibbi's complaint (its ironies seem off-the-scale to me).

21st Dec - Maybe Night 2025: write your own script! (will be offline 'til after Xmas, myself). Check out @bobbycampbell.net's site: maybeday.net/night/ (montage pic: rawsemantics.home.blog/wp-content/u...)

21st Dec - Maybe Night 2025: write your own script! (will be offline 'til after Xmas, myself). Check out @bobbycampbell.net's site: maybeday.net/night/ (montage pic: rawsemantics.home.blog/wp-content/u...)

'RAW political #5 – global / local / po' - NEW substantial post on the global-local axis in #RobertAntonWilson writings. With Po & SNAFU & Scandinavian model. rawsemantics.home.blog/2025/12/04/r...

I discuss, with Reason mag's Jesse Walker, a point of slight disagreement on the new RAW anthology - in comments under this post. (Btw, unlike Substack, NO algorithm showing unrelated "related notes" & NO stupid FB-style "see more" clicking for hidden comments) rawsemantics.home.blog/2025/12/04/r...

RAWIllumination.net: RAW Semantics on globalism and Scandinavian systems @rawsemantics.bsky.social - www.rawillumination.net/2025/12/raw-...

'RAW political #5 – global / local / po' - NEW substantial post on the global-local axis in #RobertAntonWilson writings. With Po & SNAFU & Scandinavian model. rawsemantics.home.blog/2025/12/04/r...

Status Update! talesofilluminatus.substack.com/p/walking-th...

"Have you said thank you once?"

"Have you said thank you once?"

Biggest ORWELLIAN propaganda coup in my lifetime? The widely held belief in the USA that helping Ukraine survive & defend itself = war(mongering). And that helping Russia achieve the aims of its military invasion unhindered = peace/"negotiation". War is peace. Ignorance is strength.

Biggest ORWELLIAN propaganda coup in my lifetime? The widely held belief in the USA that helping Ukraine survive & defend itself = war(mongering). And that helping Russia achieve the aims of its military invasion unhindered = peace/"negotiation". War is peace. Ignorance is strength.

It's that time of year again! Here comes MAYBE NIGHT 2025 :))) maybeday.net/night/

The two new book releases from Hilaritas press complement each other, for sure. Tom Jackson commenting: www.rawillumination.net/2025/11/the-...

"The current disinformation and slop phenomenon on the internet today makes the days of ‘Russian bot farms’ seem quaint; the problem is now fully decentralized and distributed across the world and is almost entirely funded by social media companies themselves." www.404media.co/americas-pol...

Timothy Leary was a huge fan & early promoter of William Gibson's novels. (There's a dedication to Gibson in Leary's 'Info-Psychology', and Tim interviews Gibson in his book, 'Chaos & Cyber Culture'. Robert Anton Wilson was also a fan...

Why everyone should have a basic income. I've yet to see a good argument against it. youtu.be/NNHAgXy5dxQ?...

"𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙄 𝙙𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙬𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚; 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙭 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙨." - RAW on why he was a big fan of John Dickson Carr. I've read a lot of pulp fiction, but never any Carr. Any recommendations for his novels?

Russian state media talking points seem easy to spot, even when they come from Western "low hanging fruit" outrage "dissenters" such as Maté, Blumenthal & Johnstone. There's a guy (no doubt well-meaning) who floods one of the main RAW Facebooks with this stuff.

'Where "Are" We? Chapel Perilous? Chinatown?' - Michael Johnson (Overweening Generalist) with a great new piece on metaphors for the godawful state we're in. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Fiona Hill, geopolitical strategist: 'The US is giving Russia tremendous influence over Europe'

The Hilaritas Press Podcast Hilaritas host Mike Gathers chats with Mike Shea and Tom Jackson about the life of Robert Shea, and the new Robert Shea book, Every Day Is A GOOD Day. www.hilaritaspress.com/podcasts/mik...

RAWIllumination.net: The Etsy Weirdoverse shop www.rawillumination.net/2025/11/the-...

"𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙄 𝙙𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙬𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚; 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙭 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙨." - RAW on why he was a big fan of John Dickson Carr. I've read a lot of pulp fiction, but never any Carr. Any recommendations for his novels?

UK Poet Laureate Simon Armitage speaks at length of his admiration for Bill Nelson. He says no other music puts him in poetic space more than Bill's experimental work. (I first heard of Robert Anton Wilson from Bill back in the 1980s). www.southbankcentre.co.uk/magazine/sim...

Got any fresh fnords in today?

Buckminster Fuller talked of scientific advances being weaponised to deliver greater destruction over further distances in shorter times. The subject of this thread, weaponised, looks like delivering social/political breakdown in ever wider & more unstoppable ways, faster. bsky.app/profile/elio...

EARLY RAW - THE ED SANDERS COLLECTION :))) maybelogic.blogspot.com/2025/11/earl...

Carole Cadwalladr's latest piece (on Thiel & Palantir) is cookin' with rocket fuel! broligarchy.substack.com/p/peter-thie... @carolecadwalla.bsky.social

The reference to "Fredrick Saudi, the physicist" in the 2001 Utopia USA interview of RAW by Lance Bauscher (also included in the new RAW anthology, 'A Non-Euclidean Perspective') refers, I think, to Frederick Soddy (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederi...). I don't know of any Fredrick Saudi.

You can't get much closer to a simple, reliably verifiable *fact* than the official score of a major football match (watched by millions around the world & reported by countless media outlets). Yet Xitter/Grok reported it wrongly the next day. bsky.app/profile/raws...

At last! The US print edition of Tales of Illuminatus! #2 is here! (The UK/EU version has been out for weeks, sign of the times, I'm afraid) If you ordered a copy it should either be at your doorstep or on the way :))) Supplies are indeed limited! Order today! www.etsy.com/shop/Weirdov...

New podcast at 'Liminal Currents' with Rasa from Hilaritas Press talking about Robert Anton Wilson: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

I recall Musk years ago saying we'd all be able to edit SM algorithms like Wikipedia pages. But he installed himself as sole lever-puller at Grok. Now there's a power struggle over the "source" basis of (increasingly vanishing) "consensus reality". substack.com/home/post/p-... @noupside.bsky.social

RAWIllumination.net: RAW and Shea material at the Princeton library www.rawillumination.net/2025/11/raw-...

RAWIllumination.net: RAW Semantics on the new Shea book - @rawsemantics.bsky.social - www.rawillumination.net/2025/11/raw-...